The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-27
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


LORD TRNSysoS's eyesight is failing him b
such an extent to cause serious alarm nmong
his numerous circle Of friends
JEAN IN6ELow is more than fifty years old
ard her friends trying to secure for her d
ths aunnities awarded by the crown for literary
services.
THERE is strong classical atmosphere abous
Frank Hiscock's life He was born at Pompey.
practiced law at Tully, went frequently to Rome.
| finally settled In Syracuse and is now Senator.
BuRDETTs: We splash and skip We slide and
| slip, we grumble, growl and jaw. through slush
and slop we wade and flop, Oh, January thaw.
/ With soaking feet we walk the street, the worsl
| we ever saw; it is no joke to be in soak thou
| January thaw.
MISS MATILDA JOHNSON has just died in LON
! den, one hundred and sixteen years old Eighty.
| nine years ago her intended husband died sud
| denly, and she made will giving her entire
that Love killed her. should De engraved On hee
| tombstone.
MEDICAL journal states that ''the two els-
ments of highest cost of human life. as it is lived
in the aggregate, are spirits and tobacco, thS
| one stimulant narcotic, the other a depressant
narcotic, and that more than one-third of the
| human race prove by living without them thai
] they are in no degree necessary or heaithful
| but on the contrary tend to depravity and de-
struction.n
| FRENCH newspapers record the appearance Of
a new Portia at court in Montpelier. A
| farmer, tried and condemned for breach of trust,
| had appealed, and. the day appointed for
hearing the case, he came into court accom-
panied by daughter, tall. good looking
| woman about twenty six years old. To the SUR
prise of the judges she opened her fathers case
i in a mastery manner, argued the defense like
| practsed lawyer and gained verdict OF 40.
quittaL
GEORGE WASHINGTON was above the necessity
of spelling correctly But it is interesting to OBJ
serve that he defed photography with the SANG
calm courage with which he opposed the troopt'
| of England. He once wrotefto the congregation
| Of the Dutch Reformed Chufch Of Schenectady:
II sinceary thank you for yonr CONGRATULATIONS
on my arrival in this place. Whilst | join In
adoring that now Supreem BEING, to whom alone
can be ATTRIBUTED the sienef successes Of our
arms, cannot but express my gratitude TO you
gentlemen" etc. ~
THE Municipal Council Of Milan, italy, is en-
gagged in violent controversy apropos of the
erection of the monument executed N honor OF
Napoleon III, in 1873. The Milanese, remem-
berine that the French Emperor liberated Lom-
hardy from the grasp CT the Austrians, engaged
the celebrated sculptor Banzaghi to design and
execute the statue. An opposition group, for
getting the fact that Italy had not been q nation
since the break up of the Roman empire in tbs
fifth century by the barbarians, oppose the pro-
posal of the erection OF a statue to the man who
made Italy q nation. at the sacrifice of much
blood and treasure, instead of being a CONCERTED
of pickering provinces. But there is no graft.
tude in politics
DIR. EDWARD PARRY, Bishop of Dover, Eng
land, recently received the gift of his OWE
portrait, painted by MIR. Herkomer The Archa
bishop of Canterbury made the presentation
speech in the Lambeth Palace library, and in
the course of it described two scenes in DIR.
Parry's life-one. of his attendance at the death
bed of the late Archbishop TAFT; the other, forty
years before, when DR.. TAFT. head master OF
Rugby then, found Edward Parry, homesick
boy, just come to school, sitting on his trunk Ia
a corridor and weeping bitterly.
THE Critic is requested by Mr.. John g. Whit
tier to state that he finds it impossible to reply
to solicitations which reach him by every mail
) for autographs notices Of books, and answers tc
questions on matters of no real interest to the
writers or himself He has neither time nor
strength for the examination ard criticism Of
manuscripts, and cannot be responsible for the
, care OF them. The letters of his friends,
, known and unknown, are always welcome, and
, he trusts that his age and state of health will
excuse occasional delay in responding 10
them. Mr. Whittier would be obliged IL editors
would kindly copy this
THE reading Of the will of tho late Pope Plus
TX was an occasion of disappointment to some
of that Pontiffs relatives. His paternal proper.
ty did not amount to $40, 900, and this might be
called the only sure part of the inheritance, two
thirds of which fell to Girolamo, the eldest son
E of creole, and one-third to Christina only
daughter of Luigi. Donna Teresa Mastai, who
was lady of lively spirit, asked. when the read
! ing terminated, whether there anything
more and nearing from the chancellor that there
was nothing, she rose from her seat and said Il
her relations in a marked ironical tone: "And
now. gentlemen, we may go away" On de
n scendng the stairs of the Vatican the same LADY
| turned to her relations and said: sit seems
j nice hoax gentlemen, for all of u.s." And sht
| added, turning to Count Augusti: Really, |,
was unnecessary to make US come up here Il
| listen to such a wilh''